Q & A

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Questions for article: “Is there God? 4e) Science] Evolution theory versus science?”
But don’t the majority of scientists believe in evolution? Are you saying that you are smarter than these scientists?

No, most likely (in fact, I’m pretty sure) that I’m not the smartest person on planet earth. However, just as I don’t dismiss evolution theory based on statistic alone, we should not accept evolution theory, or even any theory, based on statistic alone. 2000 years ago, most scientists would believe that big rock would fall faster than small rock. 1000 years ago, most scientists believed that the earth is the centre of the universe. 150 years ago majority of evolutionist scientist believed that the result of evolution is always progressively going towards better creature. In the last five years, there have been some doubts against natural selection coming even from evolutionists (search for “New Scientists Evolution myths: Natural selection is the only means of evolution” (2008), or “Survival of the fittest theory: Darwinism's limits”, or “What Darwin got wrong”). This tells us that truth is not defined by majority. Something true is still true even when accepted only by a handful of people. This is especially true in science context, and this is the reason, why science text books need to be revised every year.  

Looking at the range of creatures that are living on earth at the moment, we can see that each creature, big and small, is unique and amazing. Even from the smallest organisms such as bacteria, cilia and flagella up to the big creatures such as giraffe, hippopotamus, or the giant squid, we could always see complexities working in harmony. Some of these creatures have a very complex life cycle, their physical may change during their life time but we shouldn't mistook this as evolution (e.g. caterpillar to butterfly, and tadpole to a toad)

With all this reality, isn't it harder to scientifically accept that something as complex, as advance, as amazing as each of those individual creatures to actually come into existence simply by chance through chaos? For me, at this stage of scientific discovery, it is very reasonable to believe that we are created this way. 




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